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November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US mutual fund assets went up by 3.1% to reach $6.616 trillion in October, according to figures from the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A total of 212,695 workers lost their jobs in October as a result of 1,816 mass layoffs in the US - the highest...

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's Social Security Commission will propose shrinking benefits for most future retirees, while allowing them to invest part of their payroll taxes...

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 61,000 employees at Eastman Kodak, who hold stock options with exercise prices so far above the current market price as to make...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prior to the 2001 economic slowdown, the number of employers offering health insurance grew, pushing the numbers of the uninsured down to 15.9%,...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Labor Secretary Elaine Chao announced that Steven Kandarian has been tapped to head up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).

November 29, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Archipelago and REDIBook will merge their stock trading systems in a bid to create the largest alternative stock trading network by share volume, according...

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Conference Board's monthly Help-Wanted Index, a measure of employment advertisements, dipped by a point, to settle at 52 in September, a 34%...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The lines for first time unemployment benefits grew 12% longer in the week ending November 24, according to figures released by the US Department...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group's board has elected J. Barry Griswell, the group's president and chief executive officer, as chairman.

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in socially screened investment portfolios under professional management grew by 36% between 1999 and 2001, climbing from $1.49 trillion to $2.03 trillion...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Notwithstanding the bleak economic outlook, 51% of US workers polled still expect to receive year-end holiday rewards from their employers, according to a...

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While 78% of Baby Boomers questioned in a recent survey believe they are financially prepared for retirement, the same survey reveals a plethora...

November 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health plan participants rate problem-solving ability as the most important customer service issue, when determining health plan satisfaction, a new survey found.

November 26, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR professionals who specialize in compensation continue to take home paychecks that are almost 3% fatter than those of their colleagues who hold mixed...

November 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Relief may be at hand for the 10 million odd shift workers who suffer from Shift Work Sleep Disorder (SWSD) - a syndrome...

November 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FTSE has formally launched the FTSE4Good Global Index and the FTSE4Good US Index, the last two in its series of eight indexes covering...

November 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The appeal of the American stock market has apparently been lost on Canadians.

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets invested in the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) rose 7.8% to total $69.42 billion at the end of October, according to the Investment...

November 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The data behind October?s jobless figures, which saw the US unemployment rate skyrocketing to 5.4%, shows an increase in joblessness in 33 states,...